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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OLLIVER PQFURMAN, OF OANISTEO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR'OF ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM B. TAYLOR, OF SAME PLACE.

SHIPPING- "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,754, dated Application-filed September 2, 1855!. No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ()LLIVER P. FURMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Oanisteo,in the county of Steuben and State of New York, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Shipping Packages; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexeddrawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of the lower part of this invention in a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a vertical section. Fig.3 is a perspective view of the under side of the cover.

This invention has relation to packages used for the safe and economical transportation of different commodities.

In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 shows the bucket, the side wall of which is made of staves having the grain running up and down, said stavesbeing encircled by metallic hoops. This outer bucket, A, is so constructed and arranged relatively to the part B as to be three-eighths of an inch lower than the metallic pail B, which it is made to protect, and should be large enough to provide for the free and easy insertion of said metallic pailr The cover (J to'the bucket has a V-shaped groove, d, on the under side, which is to admit the edge of the metallic pail easily, said edge becoming tightened in the groove as it is pressed down upon the top of the pail or bucket. This cover has two cleats across, as shown at n in Fig. 2, which are sufficiently wide and thick to keep the cover from warping or splitting. The groove 11 of the cover is lined with metal, as at e, and forms a double lock, holdin g the metallic pail from spreading, and making it air-tight.

The manner-of fastening the top on the jacket PACKAGE.

March 27, 1883.

consists in driving one endof any metallic malleable strap, g, of the thickness of hoop-iron and about one inch wide, into the top of the stave, andben din g the same outward and down, as'shown in Fig.2. Then,byputtingonasuitable hoop, h, driving it down tight, and bending the strap upward and over the hoop and down on the top of the cover, the strap may be easily fastened to the cover by means of nails or screws k, Fig. 2. i

The bottom G is fastened by putting it in place and nailing through the staves into the bottom at the line where the bottom hoop goes round the bucket or jacket. Then drive on the bottom hoop over the place where the nails were driven in, th us securingthe nails or screws from working out and saving the construction of grooves or chines commonly used in the manufacture of such buckets.

Having described this invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The wooden cover 0, having the metallined V-form groove 01 c to receive the edge of the can or pail B, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of the side wall of bucket A and the cover 0, of the metallic fasteningstrap 9, inserted into upper edge of stave or side wall, bent downward, hooped over and bent upward around the hoop and fastened to the top of the cover, substantially as specified.

3. A shippingpackage consisting of the outer bucket, A, itsinserted and hooped strapfastening g, the V-grooved cover 0, and the inner can or pail B, having its edge engaging the V-form groove d, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

OLLIVER P. FURMAN. Witnesses:

JOHN F. TAYLOR, BENJAMIN F. TAYLOR. 

